Live music with OWEN BARNHART at Horan Estates Winery

Hello!

My name is Owen. I am a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from a small mountain town in Washington state.

I got a formal education in percussion and eventually moved to Los Angeles to continue drumming professionally - an exciting culture shock from my rural upbringing in the North Cascades. In 2002 I started branching out from my drumming career and began teaching myself guitar, setting a goal to make my own recordings at home and play all the parts of the music I was creating. I fell in love with this process and it became the ultimate creative expression for me. Influence from my childhood cassette tape of Waylon & Willie was still surfacing. Hundreds of “throw-away” songs later, more life happened and what I wrote about deepened

I spent the summer of 2021 playing my new material all over Eastern Washington and had the profound experience of witnessing people connect with it. Whether it is a personal connection to my lyrics or a nostalgic memory from hearing me sing a classic country, rock or folk song, it is an absolute honor to make music that not only feeds my soul, but connects people in a time when division is rampant.

Owen Barnhart

Host or Publisher Horan Estates Winery